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U.S. Route 41 is a north-south United States Highway that runs from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Miami, Florida. Until 1949, the part in southern Florida, from Naples to Miami, was U.S. Route 94, which presently has the hidden designation of State Road 90 in addition to its signed number.

Termini

The highway's northern terminus is east of Copper Harbor, Michigan at a modest cul-de-sac near Fort Wilkins Historic State Park at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior in the state's Upper Peninsula. Its southern terminus is in Miami, Florida at an intersection with Biscayne Boulevard (U.S. Route 1).

Historic termini

When their routes were originally laid out in 1926, US 41's southern endpoint was in Naples, Florida at the western endpoint of U.S. Highway 94, which ran east to Miami. In 1949, US 94 was decommissioned, and the entire route became part of US 41, giving it an east-west section that retained the hidden SR 90 designation. The former US 94 route ended in Miami, Florida at the same intersection that US 41 (and SR 90) does now. In 1953, US 41 was extended along US 1 and State Road A1A to terminate in Miami Beach, but was truncated back to the earlier terminus in 2000.

States traversed

The highway passes through the following states:

Major Cities

Major cities along the route include:

Intersections

U.S. 41 intersects with the following Interstate Highways and other freeways:

Alternate routes

As of 2005, Alternate US 41 (signed "41A") has a northern terminus in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 10 miles (16 km) north of the Tennessee line. It serves the city of Clarksville, Tennessee on its way to Nashville, where it briefly runs concurrent with US-41, then separates again to serve Shelbyville, Winchester, and Tullahoma before finally rejoining the mother route atop Monteagle Mountain. US-41A runs to the west of US-41 for its entire length, aside from one mile in Downtown Nashville, where they are concurrent. US-41A is also concurrent with US-31A (the alternate route of U.S. Highway 31) from Nashville to Triune, Tennessee, a distance of approximately 25 miles.

Bypasses

U.S. 41 bypasses downtown Marquette via a short expressway and then it cuts south to Lake Michigan, again becoming an expressway to bypass downtown Escanaba.

Related US routes

See also

Trivia

U.S. Highway 41 was immortalized in the song "Ramblin' Man" by the The Allman Brothers Band. The song's protagonist was "born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus, rollin' down Highway 41."

In July 2005, efforts started in Congress to re-designate US 41 between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Green Bay, Wisconsin as Interstate 41. The new Interstate Highway would also include US 45 between current US 41 and the intersection with Interstate 894 and Interstate 94. It is believed that US 41 at that time would then be re-routed to remain concurrent with I-41.

Notes

  • Between Miami and Naples, U.S. 41 runs through the vast Everglades wilderness; this section has been designated a National Scenic Byway. The byway runs east-west along most of this stretch through the Big Cypress National Preserve skirting the northern border of Everglades National Park for about 20 miles. This section of the highway is known as the Tamiami Trail (derived from the combination of Tampa and Miami, the road's two termini).
  • It closely parallels Interstate 75 from Naples all the way through Georgia to Chattanooga.
  • After entering Illinois U.S. 41 splits off of I-94 and continues as the Skokie Highway for around 25 miles before briefly rejoining I-94. It then continues south to Chicago, Illinois' lakefront area as "Lake Shore Drive", running along the shores of Lake Michigan and past downtown Chicago.
  • North of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, U.S. 41 is routed along Foster Avenue, Lincoln Avenue and Skokie Boulevard. South of Lake Shore Drive, U.S. 41 is routed along South Shore Drive (which itself requires two turns to stay on). It then is routed onto Bond Avenue, Baker Avenue, 85th Street, Burley Avenue, 87th Street, Mackinaw Avenue, Ewing Avenue and Indianapolis Avenue within the space of about 2 miles. The U.S. 41 relocation project seeks to straighten out this section of the highway by 2008.
  • U.S. 14 intersects U.S. 41 twice in two miles in the city of Chicago. U.S. 14 originates as northbound Broadway at the intersection of Foster Avenue and Broadway (at this point U.S. 41 is oriented east-west). They then intersect again at Lincoln Avenue at Peterson Avenue.
  • U.S. 41 crosses the Menominee River at its mouth and enters Wisconsin at Marinette. It joins Interstate 94 in Milwaukee at Miller Park and the Menomonee River, and is cosigned to just past the Illinois border.
  • At the northern end of U.S. 41 in Copper Harbor there are two mileage signs that give the distance to Miami, 1990 miles. Photos: from *" target="_blank" >from [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~aleskiw/roadgeek/Gallery1.htm.

External links

References

U.S. Highway System | U.S. Highways in Florida | U.S. Highways in Michigan | U.S. Highways in Wisconsin | U.S. Highways in Illinois | U.S. Highways in Indiana | U.S. Highways in Kentucky | U.S. Highways in Tennessee | U.S. Highways in Georgia | National Scenic Byways | Blue Star Memorial Highways | Dixie Highway | U.S. Route 2

 

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